Try to think back to your grade school days for a minute. If you are still in grade school, this should hopefully be easy! Now, try to answer this question:
What is a conjunction? Do you remember? If you don’t, it’s okay. I didn’t either until recent years.
A conjunction is: any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Some examples of conjunctions are the words and, yet, so, but, or and nor.
Simply put, conjunctions are words that connect two thoughts of a sentence. You’re probably wondering, why in the world are you doing a post about conjunctions?
Here is the answer: In the Bible, conjunctions have power and purpose.
There are some verses in the Bible that you begin reading, and if the verse only contained the first phrase, you would feel hopeless. But then you see a conjunction, connecting that phrase to a new phrase. And that new phrase gives you great hope.
Here are a few examples:
Romans 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:6-8 — For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 2:1-7 — And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
As you read through these writings of Paul, I hope you see that these conjunctions are necessary. Without them, all we read is that we are all sinners without hope. The conjunction changes everything, though. It points to the hope and power of Jesus Christ, and what that means for our present and future.
So, next time you read Scripture and come across a conjunction, take some time to stop, slow down, and read it again. It probably means more than you think.
Grace & Peace
Matthew Weaver 
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